ABINGDON'S picturesque market square is encircled by a range of businesses vying to feed passers-by, from independents like the popular Java cafe and Throwing Buns to the coffee chain Costa.
LIKE many millennials, brunch has become a late Sunday morning ritual for me.
WHO has their Christmas do on a Monday lunchtime? We grumbled ignorantly, as we were turned away from the second place that afternoon.
PLANS to close an Oxfordshire school because of 'persistently low numbers' were signed off yesterday, despite a predicted increase in pupils county-wide.
MY first visit to Mollie's diner, shortly after its opening at the end of January, left me disappointed.
ITS ye olde exterior would make a postcard-perfect picture of a quintessential English pub, standing out from the terracotta-coloured brick of its neighbours in Thame's Cornmarket.
PARENTS fear a funding crisis could hit Oxfordshire schools harder than first thought.
IT TOOK about 10 minutes of stubborn shivering before we relented, retreating indoors from our pretty riverside table.
OUR dramatic arrival at the Horse & Jockey had heads turning and tongues tutting before we even made it to our table.
WITH pubs vanishing from towns and villages across Oxfordshire, I was reassured to find such a healthy smattering lining Thame High Street.
